Online recipes are such bullshit. You have to wade through an endless amount of filler text, video crap, sponsor fluffing and ads before you get to the actual recipe hidden at the bottom of the page.
Everything is designed to maximize SEO and make you click shitty ads. Capitalism ruins everything it touches.
The problem is mostly ad views and not SEO.
SEO wants important info at the top, it wants people to abandon less, overall Google wants to keep you coming back.
But look at most of those shitty recipe articles- they have interstitial ads galore. Phone users are hitting those by accident all the damn time. They get way more money if the user has to actually scroll. So the culprit is Google Ads not Google Search.
unironically feel like phones ruined the internet (enabled by capitalism of course)
I remember being in 2010 and thinking "oh that's useful, but who's actually going to use the internet on their phone, other than to search for directions or listen to music"
turns out the answer was everyone (except me)
I still remember the first time I had an iPod touch on a campus with full wifi coverage, so basically a smartphone, and it was amazing that I could just look up anything at any time at a whim, never having to wonder about lots of stuff
google searching is one thing but heavy habitual browsing on a phone, I just can't do that (and I'm under 30)